Look into your applications menu and search for Input Remapper to open the UI.
You should be prompted for your sudo password as special permissions are needed to read
events from /dev/input/ files. You can also start it via input-remapper-gtk.
First, select your device (like your keyboard) on the first page, then create a new preset on the second page, and add a mapping. Then you can already edit your inputs, as shown in the screenshots below.
In the "Output" textbox on the right, type the key to which you would like to map this input. More information about the possible mappings can be found in examples.md and below. You can also write your macro into the "Output" textbox. If you hit enter, it will switch to a multiline-editor with line-numbers.
Changes are saved automatically. Press the "Apply" button to activate (inject) the mapping you created.
If you later want to modify the Input of your mapping you need to use the "Stop" button, so that the application can read your original input. It would otherwise be invisible since the daemon maps it independently of the GUI.
If your key is hanging due to a macro, unplug your device, and then plug it back in. This should reset the key.
If stuff doesn't work, check the output of input-remapper-gtk -d and feel free
to open up an issue here.
Make sure to not post any debug logs that were generated while you entered
private information with your device. Debug logs are quite verbose.
If input-remapper or your presets prevents your input device from working at all due to autoload, please try to unplug and plug it in twice. No injection should be running anymore.
You can use combinations of different inputs to trigger a mapping: While you record
the input (Record - Button) press multiple keys and/or move axis at once.
The mapping will be triggered as soon as all the recorded inputs are pressed.
If you use an axis an input you can modify the threshold at which the mapping is
activated in the advanced input configuration, which can be opened by clicking
on the Advanced button.
A mapping with an input combination is only injected once all combination keys are pressed. This means all the input keys you press before the combination is complete will be injected unmodified. In some cases this can be desirable, in others not.
Option 1: In the advanced input configuration there is the Release Input toggle.
This will release all inputs which are part of the combination before the mapping is
injected. Consider a mapping Shift+1 -> a this will inject a lowercase a if the
toggle is on and an uppercase A if it is off. The exact behaviour if the toggle is off
is dependent on keys (are modifiers involved?), the order in which they are pressed and
on your environment (X11/Wayland). By default the toggle is on.
Option 2: Disable the keys that are part of the combination individually. So with
a mapping of Super+1 -> a, you could additionally map Super to disable. Now
Super won't do anything anymore, and therefore pressing the combination won't have
any side effects anymore.
You can write Control_L + a as mapping, which will inject those two
keycodes into your system on a single key press. An arbitrary number of
names can be chained using +.
ctrl+delstops the injection (only works while the gui is in focus)ctrl+qcloses the applicationctrl+rrefreshes the device list
Check the autocompletion of the GUI for possible values. You can also
obtain a complete list of possiblities using input-remapper-control --symbol-names.
Input-remapper only recognizes symbol names, but not the symbols themselves. So for
example, input-remapper might (depending on the system layout) know what a minus is, but
it doesn't know -.
Key names that start with KEY_ are keyboard layout independent constants that might
not result in the expected output. For example using KEY_Y would result in "z"
if the layout of the environment is set to german. Using y on the other hand would
correctly result in "y" to be written.
It is also possible to map a key to disable to stop it from doing anything.
If your fingers can't type it on your keyboard, input-remapper can't inject it.
The available symbols depend on the environments keyboard layout, and only those that don't require a combination to be pressed can be used without workarounds (so most special characters need some extra steps to use them). Furthermore, if your configured keyboard layout doesn't support the special character at all (not even via a combination), then it also won't be possible for input-remapper to map that character at all.
For example, mapping a key to an exclamation mark is not possible if the keyboard
layout is set to german. However, it is possible to mimic the combination that would
be required to write it, by writing Shift_L + 1 into the mapping.
This is because input-remapper creates a new virtual keyboard and injects numeric keycodes, and it won't be able to inject anything a usb keyboard wouldn't been able to. This has the benefit of being compatible to all display servers, but means the environment will ultimately decide which character to write.
It is possible to map analog inputs to analog outputs. E.g. use a gamepad as a mouse.
For this you need to create a mapping and record the input axis. Then click on
Advanced and select Use as Analog. Make sure to select a target
which supports analog axis and switch to the Analog Axis tab.
There you can select an output axis and use the different sliders to configure the
sensitivity, non-linearity and other parameters as you like.
It is also possible to use an analog output with an input combination. This will result in the analog axis to be only injected if the combination is pressed
When mapping wheels, you need to be aware that there are both WHEEL and WHEEL_HI_RES
events. This can cause your wheel to scroll, despite being mapped to something.
By fiddling around with the advanced settings when editing one of your inputs, you can
map the "Hi Res" inputs to disable.
Repositories listed here are made by input-remappers users. Feel free to extend. Beware, that I can't review their code, so use them at your own risk (just like everything).
- input-remapper-xautopresets: https://github.com/DreadPirateLynx/input-remapper-xautopresets
If you don't have a graphical user interface, you'll need to edit the configuration files. All configuration files need to be valid json files, otherwise the parser refuses to work.
Note for the Beta branch: All configuration files are copied to:
~/.config/input-remapper/beta_VERSION/
The default configuration is stored at ~/.config/input-remapper/config.json,
which doesn't include any mappings, but rather other parameters that
are interesting for injections. The current default configuration as of 1.6
looks like, with an example autoload entry:
{
"autoload": {
"Logitech USB Keyboard": "preset name"
},
"version": "1.6"
}preset name refers to ~/.config/input-remapper/presets/device name/preset name.json.
The device name can be found with sudo input-remapper-control --list-devices.
The preset files are a collection of mappings.
Here is an example configuration for preset "a" for the "gamepad" device:
~/.config/input-remapper/presets/gamepad/a.json
[
{
"input_combination": [
{"type": 1, "code": 307}
],
"target_uinput": "keyboard",
"output_symbol": "key(2).key(3)",
"macro_key_sleep_ms": 100
},
{
"input_combination": [
{"type": 1, "code": 315, "origin_hash": "07f543a6d19f00769e7300c2b1033b7a"},
{"type": 3, "code": 1, "analog_threshold": 10}
],
"target_uinput": "keyboard",
"output_symbol": "1"
},
{
"input_combination": [
{"type": 3, "code": 1}
],
"target_uinput": "mouse",
"output_type": 2,
"output_code": 1,
"gain": 0.5
}
]This preset consists of three mappings.
- The first maps the key event with code 307 to a macro and sets the time between injected events of macros to 100 ms. The macro injects its events to the virtual keyboard.
- The second mapping is a combination of a key event with the code 315 and a analog input of the axis 1 (y-Axis).
- The third maps the y-Axis of a joystick to the y-Axis on the virtual mouse.
As shown above, the mapping is part of the preset. It consists of the input-combination, which is a list of input-configurations and the mapping parameters.
{
"input_combination": [
<InputConfig 1>,
<InputConfig 2>
]
<parameter 1>: <value1>,
<parameter 2>: <value2>
}
The input-combination is a list of one or more input configurations. To trigger a mapping, all input configurations must trigger.
A input configuration is a dictionary with some or all of the following parameters:
| Parameter | Default | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| type | - | int | Input Event Type |
| code | - | int | Input Evnet Code |
| origin_hash | None | hex (string formatted) | A unique identifier for the device which emits the described event. |
| analog_threshold | None | int | The threshold above which a input axis triggers the mapping. |
The type and code parameters are always needed. Use the program evtest to find
Available types and codes. See also the evdev documentation
The origin_hash is an internally computed hash. It is used associate the input with a
specific /dev/input/eventXX device. This is useful when a single pyhsical device
creates multiple /dev/input/eventXX devices wihth similar capabilities.
See also: Issue#435
Setting the analog_threshold to zero or omitting it means that the input will be
mapped to an axis. There can only be one axis input with a threshold of 0 in a mapping.
If the type is 1 (EV_KEY) the analog_threshold has no effect.
The analog_threshold is needend when the input is a analog axis which should be
treated as a key input. If the event type is 3 (EV_ABS) (as in: map a joystick axis to
a key or macro) the threshold can be between -100 [%] and 100 [%]. The mapping will
be triggered once the joystick reaches the position described by the value.
If the event type is 2 (EV_REL) (as in: map a relative axis (e.g. mouse wheel) to a
key or macro) the threshold can be anything. The mapping will be triggered once the
speed and direction of the axis is higher than described by the threshold.
The following table contains all possible parameters and their default values:
| Parameter | Default | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| input_combination | list | see above | |
| target_uinput | string | The UInput to which the mapped event will be sent | |
| output_symbol | string | The symbol or macro string if applicable | |
| output_type | int | The event type of the mapped event | |
| output_code | int | The event code of the mapped event | |
| release_combination_keys | true | bool | If release events will be sent to the forwarded device as soon as a combination triggers see also #229 |
| Macro settings | |||
| macro_key_sleep_ms | 0 | positive int | |
| Axis settings | |||
| deadzone | 0.1 | float ∈ (0, 1) | The deadzone of the input axis |
| gain | 1.0 | float | Scale factor when mapping an axis to an axis |
| expo | 0 | float ∈ (-1, 1) | Non liniarity factor see also GeoGebra |
| EV_REL output | |||
| rel_rate | 60 | positive int | The frequency [Hz] at which EV_REL events get generated (also effects mouse macro) |
| EV_REL as input | |||
| rel_to_abs_input_cutoff | 2 | positive float | The value relative to a predefined base-speed, at which EV_REL input (cursor and wheel) is considered at its maximum. |
| release_timeout | 0.05 | positive float | The time [s] until a relative axis is considered stationary if no new events arrive |
input-remapper-control
--command requires the service to be running. You can start it via
systemctl start input-remapper or sudo input-remapper-service if it isn't already
running (or without sudo if your user has the appropriate permissions).
Examples:
| Description | Command |
|---|---|
| Load all configured presets for all devices | input-remapper-control --command autoload |
| If you are running as root user, provide information about the whereabouts of the input-remapper config | input-remapper-control --command autoload --config-dir "~/.config/input-remapper/" |
List available device names for the --device parameter |
sudo input-remapper-control --list-devices |
| Stop injecting | input-remapper-control --command stop --device "Razer Razer Naga Trinity" |
Load ~/.config/input-remapper/presets/Razer Razer Naga Trinity/a.json |
input-remapper-control --command start --device "Razer Razer Naga Trinity" --preset "a" |
| Loads the configured preset for whatever device is using this /dev path | /bin/input-remapper-control --command autoload --device /dev/input/event5 |
| Make the input-remapper-service process exit | /bin/input-remapper-control --command quit |
systemctl
Stopping the service will stop all ongoing injections
sudo systemctl stop input-remapper
sudo systemctl start input-remapper
systemctl status input-remapperThe following commands can be used to make sure it works:
sudo input-remapper-service &
input-remapper-control --command helloshould print Daemon answered with "hello". And
sudo input-remapper-control --list-devicesshould print Found "...", .... If anything looks wrong, feel free to create
an issue.
By default, Input Remapper will not migrate configurations from the beta. If you want to use those you will need to copy them manually.
rm ~/.config/input-remapper-2 -r
cp ~/.config/input-remapper/beta_1.6.0-beta ~/.config/input-remapper-2 -rThen start input-remapper